Lost for Words
I have struggled to write recently. Occasionally words come but not as freely as they used too and I miss them.
Lost For Words
There is an absence
a black bubble
that I circumnavigate.
I push it gently.
Are they in there -
the words I need?
They once filled the spaces
in my mind.
Occupying every cupboard and corner.
Under the bed,
in the nook,
every inch took-up
with nouns, adjectives
and powerful verbs.
Now they tease me with
with their absence.
And I feel
unknown,
uncharted,
uncompromising
loneliness.